Why has every Laura thread on every site that I visit turned to shit? All of a sudden people immediately started arguing about her skin color. Get a Brazilian character and complain that she’s not dark enough because Brazil isn’t a melting pot of mixed races, cultures, ethnicities, yes and even skin color. Every time a new female gets released dumb controversy happens.
I like characters with counters. As someone said to me though… characters already have v counters in SFV so an actual counter might be unlikely.
But yeah, chain grab combos might be in or grabs that can be combo’d in to.
Seeing as the story is going to be better she’s got to have something to do. More than an El Feurte throw away storyline. Sean’s sister could be highly likely. @Daemos is the resident lore keeper, maybe he could postulate on story for us… :*
Hi Eternal Blazebro
My pet name for Laura is “Bianca” Cuz she’s girl Blanka.
Any more derailing with arguments about race and skin color beyond this point will get this thread locked.
I don’t see her as “bad”. She just doesn’t trike me as an antagonist. I doubt she has any connection to Blanka, or Dan.
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Probably just because there’s nothing about her to discuss besides appearance yet. No trailer to discuss new moves, or gameplay video to dissect normals etc.
Ooooh a counter would be awesome.
Is this happening in other sites as well? Suspicious. Capcom might be using sockpuppets to derail the topics and get people to hate what is otherwise an awesome leak and proceed to ask for them to resume their annoying routine of tease, troll and reveal.
I hope she kind of fights like vanessa in VF5FS where you can combo into a grab with just frame moves, but not just frames.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSos4pOvWDw
If anyone ever says “mature ______ for mature people such as myself” they are being tongue in cheek. The phrase is used to mock people who hate moe and want Japan to only make the kind of anime that Toonami would air.
If she has BJJ, Capoeira and electricity then I’m pretty sure she’s going to be all like “Brazil #1! Brazil is the best country for fighting!” or some such. I can easily see her being a fan of Blanka and learning electricity by watching his matches(Blanka learned it by watching eels). I really hope she is a Capo as well. I can see Capcom coming up with some crazy Capoeira -> BJJ transitions.
Honey was getting her hair cornrowed but there was an emergency so she had to leave halfway. She was still fine so it caught on.
I would like this. A lot.
I sure hope so since a certain other character doesnt have them anymore that only god knows why. Smh…
I hope not. Let’s compensate the design simplicity with some depth of character and backstory or, if she results to be another blank, there’s a proper backlash.
I want to see how they implement BJJ because, like other martial arts based on grabs and joint locks, seems to me that it translate poorly into fighting game mechanics. The best thing I can imagine is a character based on parries, coutnters and sabakis like DOA’s Leifang. I have the sinking feeling that this whole electricity thing is a cover for the fact they just give up on the concept and opted to give them a random mishmash of moves but I hope to be wrong.
I don’t see counters being any more unlikely due to V Reversals because they fulfill entirely different roles. A counter is just an actual reversal like a DP after all; you’re calling out that your opponent is going to attack and punishing them for it but will be punished if you fail. They’re also some of my favorite moves in fighting games, so I’d be hyped as hell if she has one.
Something that would be cool would be for her to be able to attack characters in a knockdown state. I can’t think of many SF characters who can do that, other than that Twelve super on Hugo in 3S.
In 3S that is a glitch and wasn’t even intended by the devs since the game naturally doesn’t have OTG properties.
Bison’s EX stomp technically does OTG I believe in V so I guess it wouldn’t be out of line.
I was very sad when I learned Karin’s counter moves were gone. So, if they give Laura one and make her the new Karin, and you know she has that kinda attitude just by looking at the leaked pics, then I’m gonna rage HARD!
Considering how rare hard knockdowns have been in SFV up until now, it would be an interesting twist if Capcom had her game based heavily around hard knockdowns and OTG grapples.
What does this even mean?
I think he means a style that is basically built on strikeless offense may be tough to translate into a 2d fighter. If you think about it he has a point since if you watch footage of BJJ it literally is like more technical Olympic Wrestling. There is no real punching or kicking to set up a lot of normals and pokes for in a striking based game like SF.
That’s probably why it seems like Laura’s style is almost a hybrid Capoiera/BJJ character. Capoiera influenced normals and BJJ grappling.
Sorry I had to do it. =p
